Before you set up the arena you will need to make sure that you have a big enough place for the arena.
Dressage ring size in feet.
Conversion calculators available including.
How to remember dressage arena letters there are a number of different ways to remember the outside letters of correct dressage arena layout and for me personally growing up i used the saying a fat black mother cat had eight kittens this was for the smaller size arena then you add in rsvp.
Use 3 4 5 right triangle rule to make the corners square.
The width of a standard arena 20 meters about 66 feet makes precise 20 and 10 meter circles easy to figure.
The images here show the dressage arena letter layouts for a 20x40m arena top and a 20x60m arena bottom.
Large arena diagonal length.
I m sure there s a diagram somewhere on usdf website.
The different size dressage arena markings.
This will be the second corner.
I didn t say they were easy to ride but they re at least easy to figure.
Make sure your space is the right size.
A short dressage arena is 20 meters by 40 meters or about 66 feet by 132 feet.
Some approximate conversions from meters to feet.
The 10 meter circle goes from a specific point on the track to the centerline and back to that same specific point on the track.
If you plan to ride dressage tests you will probably start out riding in the smaller arena.
Standard dressage arena dimensions are 20m x 60m 66 x 198 and small dressage arena dimensions are 20m x 40m 66 x 132.
44 72 meters or 146 feet 9 inches once you have confirmed these two measurements drive you third stake in to mark the third corner between a and f creating the other corner for the first long side where m is located point 3 in figure 2.
Or for a standard ring measure 60 meters and place a stake with the tape secured to be straight and taut.
The execution by a.
Of course this measurement doesn t include the track around the outside of the riding area nor does it include space for the judge to sit so the actual size of a standard dressage arena is probably closer to 22 by 65 meters.
63 25 meters or 207 feet 6 inches small arena.
Positions between the 40 foot location on the long wall and a 30 foot location on the short wall so they are exactly 50 feet apart.
If you are building a riding ring and have the space you can stake out the larger arena size.
Setting up a dressage arena.
The size of a dressage arena is laid out in the rules a standard ring is 20 by 60 meters.
Remember that the corner letters m f h k are only 6 meters from the end of the ring.
A standard dressage arena is 20 meters by 60 meters or about 66 feet by 197 feet.